Gabriel Rosenstock was born in postcolonial Ireland and is a poet, tankaist, haikuist, short story Q writer, novelist, playwright, essayist, blogger, translator and children's writer. Secret of Secrets/ Rún na Rún is a recent title in a series of free ekphrastic tanka books published in association with Cross-Cultural Communications. He says of this line by Li He—which translates as "the pitter-patter of rain on Dongting Lake is like the playing of a flute"—dòng tíng yŭ jiăo lái chuī sheng: "There is some evidence to suggest that it was written by myself."
Tania Stokes is a student at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She studies a wide range of artistic disciplines from mixed media illustration to digital animation. Her previously published work includes artwork for Garry Bannister's Proverbs in Irish and A Path Home-Conair Siar.